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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents

Letters, speeches, proclamations, and notes follow Lincoln from Illinois politics through the Civil War. They show his language of Union, slavery, emancipation, executive power, and reconciliation taking shape under pressure.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1865
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 982 passages · 326,103 words

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Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth CarterFrancesco Algarotti

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Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth Carter

Francesco Algarotti casts Newtonian physics as polite dialogues concerned especially with light, colour, and attraction. Elizabeth Carter supplies the English translation; the work remains Algarotti’s, including the strategies and assumptions of its gendered popularization.

What you will learn

Composition: 1738-1739
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 627 passages · 80,518 words

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Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 302 passages · 62,008 words

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Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

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Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi

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Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue

The Daodejing explores a Way that cannot be possessed by names and an action that avoids needless force. Its compressed sayings join government, simplicity, withdrawal, and the power of what appears weak.

What you will learn

Composition: layered composition, 4th-3rd centuries BCE
Editions / translations: 1842 · 1891
Languages: Classical Chinese · English · French
Extent: 81 passages · 10,432 words

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DaybreakFriedrich Nietzsche

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Daybreak

Daybreak must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1881
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 581 passages · 86,086 words

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Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom

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Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations

Dio Chrysostom stages Diogenes to examine kingship, freedom, and wealth. These imperial-period orations use the Cynic as an exemplary and provocative character; they witness a later reception rather than transcribe his speech.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st or early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 5 passages · 26,283 words

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Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus

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Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius

Lucius reports teachings in which Musonius applies philosophy to food, housing, marriage, education, and exile. Virtue is tested in ordinary habits and must be practised by women as well as men.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st or early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 21 passages · 21,330 words

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Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche

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Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1888, authorized manuscript
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 73 passages · 31,881 words

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Ethics, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza

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Ethics, English Manifestation

In the Ethics, Spinoza uses definitions, axioms, and demonstrations to construct an account of God or Nature, mind, affects, and freedom. This English manifestation presents a path in which understanding necessity transforms how passions are lived.

What you will learn

Composition: composed c. 1661-1675; published in 1677
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 261 passages · 88,568 words

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ExodusMoses

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Exodus

Departure from Egypt, wilderness journey, Sinai covenant, and the ordering of a liberated people.

What you will learn

Composition: traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Editions / translations: 2020 · 2022 · 2025
Languages: Hebrew · French · English
Extent: 40 passages · 32,134 words

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Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein

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Geometry and Experience, French Translation

Einstein asks how axiomatic geometry, valid by deduction, can describe physical bodies and measurements. This French translation clarifies the difference between a formal system, practical geometry, and the choice of a framework for relativity.

What you will learn

Composition: 1921 lecture
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 18 passages · 4,856 words

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Human, All Too Human IFriedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All Too Human I

Human, All Too Human I must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1878
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 656 passages · 90,609 words

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Human, All Too Human IIFriedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All Too Human II

Human, All Too Human II must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1879-1880; combined edition in 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 769 passages · 82,229 words

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Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud

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Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

Freud analyzes how condensation, double meaning, displacement, and savings in inhibition give a joke its form and pleasure. Verbal technique and the joke’s social tendency must be examined together.

What you will learn

Composition: 1905
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 224 passages · 81,188 words

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MetaphysicsAristotle

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; transmitted as a layered collection
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 142 passages · 109,138 words

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Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca

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Moral Letters to Lucilius

Seneca turns the letter into a moral workshop: ordinary situations become tests of judgement, time, and freedom. Lucilius is both addressee and partner in a course of practice the reader is invited to continue.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 62-65 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · French · English
Extent: 2,141 passages · 209,173 words